and Detroit in recent decades have gone through state takeovers, which are generally viewed as last resorts for underperforming schools and are often met with community backlash. Critics argue that past outcomes show little improvement following state interventions.
The district sued to block a takeover, but new education laws subsequently passed by the GOP-controlled state Legislature and a January ruling from the Texas Supreme Court cleared the way for the state to seize control.
Source: Education Headlines (educationheadlines.net)
How about bringing the curriculum to reflect the realities of our society? How about inserting monies into schools? How about giving teachers the school supplies needed?
More fascist control
Yes MORE government involvement. How Republican.
You can't trust Republicans.
Trying to out-DeSantis, DeSantis. Is he considering a run for president in '24 too? I'm not sure what he believes the state is doing so well at that it should be expanded? Or, why not have a plan implemented successfully elsewhere in the state before making a gambit like this?
Road to fascism...
There’s that small government republicans love to scream about…
So they can be GROOMED into little republicans and vote red …
Fascism
Liberal teachers kick rocks
Excellent! Americans spend more per pupil than any of our peer countries and get far worse results D3mocr4ts and teachers unions are the problem, have always been the problem because they prevent us from firing awful teachers and prevent us from paying excellent teachers more
Is the GOP thing to do. Fucking up education!
Awesome
WTF?
Abbott and Desantis are trying to 'out-fascist' each other.
And Americans being the passive little sheep they are will just sit and take it because Americans are spineless cowards. France increased the retirement age by two years and the French people are burning the fucking country down and nationwide strikes. Americans are cowards
Yay more politics on education....
So good to see the woke groomers removed.
And the dumbing down of Texans goes on... Why would anyone allow this to happen?
what are the test scores County by County for all breakdowns by race & category (ie SpecEd & Free Lunch)?
Texas and Florida race to Hell.
He’s gopfascist 🤦🏼♀️
They are all just straight up fascists. There’s just no denying it anymore.
The only reason big government Republicans want unfettered control over public education is to mismanage and bankrupt it and then complain it doesn't work.
Good luck with that.
I guess the rule about small government does not apply when meddling into the public schools for Dem districts, the one with high number of students of color.
WTF?
I love small Government Republicans.
This will happen in all red states and all the communist pedagogy will be discarded. Rest in piss
Now he will redirect funds to the Christian charter schools
Elections have consequences. Every person who elected not to vote helped to make this day happen as much as those who voted Republican. People like Abbott are doing nothing to make Texas a better state. Nothing.
Elections have consequences. Every person who elected not to vote helped to make this day happy as much as those who voted Republican. People like Abbott are doing nothing to make Texas a better state. Nothing.
Deep state republicans at it again
These takeovers never work. Unless they can fix the problem of segregation by income level and the concentration of poverty in these schools, there's not much that can be done. Big urban districts and high poverty schools are a self-fulfilling prophecy for 'failure.'
Republicans are in love with big government
Hope they run the schools better than they have the electrical grid 😵💫
All to be renamed 'Texas Hate Academy.'
Vote! Get involved! Save yourselves and the future of these kids. This is purely self serving control.
So they took over — now what? Abbott is going to be seen cruising the halls as an assistant vice principal, enforcing the rules?
This is alarming.
GovAbbott's inner fascist has come to fore. Removing and replacing elected local officials is the kind of thing he wants to do at will. Abbott is no longer a positive force for Texans - Dems or Republicans.
AbbottFailedTexasAgain
The Australian model state government’s control the entire education system with local input.
Because of the struggles of *one high school* despite the low per-student funding the state gives.
Why ?
About time.
Bye bye CRT and gender Policies 🤣😂🤣
Remember when Republicans pretended to be for smaller government?
You people in Texas and Florida are allowing these politicians to get away with too much they are pushing the envelope to see how much they can get away with. They are realizing that the republican voters wants a dictator 😂😂🤦. Soon you people will not have a democracy 🤦
This is wrong. They were elected, and just because they don’t agree with Abbott, they get removed What if it were the other way around and a dem gov interfered with a gop city? It is turning into a fascist dictatorship in TX and FL.
Practice for overturning fair elections...
Good
The Party of small government.
Big gov conservatives at it again
'party of small government'
Maybe the state should take over local churches and youth ministries as a way to protect children 👀
Greg Jung Un
Finally a Governor willing to step up fix a broken education! I wish California’s Governor would do the same thing! But we know govenorNewsome would or shal I say couldn’t!
Frightening developments
And what companies are headquartered in Texas? I want to boycott them!
State takeover of schools never works.
Nothing like that small, local government the GOP claims to love!
All schools will begin grooming children to be good little republicans. Red voters
Another State takeover of a part of your life
White indoctrination
Education just died in Houston!
How's that saying go if you can't stand the heat get out of the kitchen
So, how is the district performing? If academically the scores are poor… if the administrators are doing a crap job….If the district is doing well that’s a different story then Abbot can GFH.
I thought Republicans were opposed to government intervention.
Good for him cities are a cancerous tumor in red states why they’re allowed total autonomy as if a separate state I don’t know but it needs to end.
Hope they run to schools better than the electric company
They had their chance in the last election and went with the meanest motherfucker rather than an individual who actually cares about people.
Isn’t anyone in leadership positions or the media the least bit alarmed by the fascism that’s taking hold in the United States of America? What happened to real journalism? Is there a partnership between media moguls and autocratic power seekers?
63% chance the state will do as badly or worse than the local board.....
I hope they get rid of teachers who indoctrinate children with gender and sexuality ideology! They also need to stop the teaching of CRT and get rid of all left wing teachers who try to subtly indoctrinate kids with CRT ideology! Get back to teaching kids reading, arithmetic,…
Demographics of Houston and its Public Schools, and Harris County’s recent voting history…does this have anything to do with the takeover?
wow. scary stuff here. slouching towards communism
More fascism. Here Now
Democrats running the Houston schools have failed to educate children. Now the same democrats are mad they have been fired.
Is he going to try to make Texas education a big Hitler Youth program like Florida is?
Goodbye to education in TX. In 13 years Ohio republicans dragged our schools from 6 to 27 and now want to do the same thing to finish them off.
Florida: desantis is becoming a defacto totalitarian dictator in the state. GOP: make him president! Greg Abbott: hold my beer.
A disaster in the making.
Yikes
Seems like the state would already own/run a public school system. Am I missing something?
Well it probably can’t hurt, and might just be what they need to improve their situation. Most people realize Democrats aren’t very good at running…..anything really. Just look at what Biden and his administration have done to our country, it’s a total mess. Dem cities, hot mess
Communist Texas
WARNING:
Governor ironside fixed the power grid, now he is going to fix HISD.
Republicans are now the kings of government overreach. They're all talk when it comes to smaller government but their actions never match the rhetoric. The worst 8 words s/b changed to 'I'm a Republican and I'm here to help'
let the indoctrination begin....ugh
No shame, no morals, no honor. GOP is FAP Fascist American Party, party of racists, rapists, liars and cheats, party of treason, sedition, criminal conspiracy, misogynists and murderers of women and children. Creepublicans are Putin and Saudi puppets and traitors to US
Charter schools, book bans, union busting, erasing the civil rights movement from the curriculum, hounding gay and transgender teachers and students out of schools, and just general petty score settling bullshit that conservatives consider a belief system.
Of course, wouldn’t want to teach anything worth while, just GOP crap.
All this because of one school! Wheatly high , where the grades got better and passing !! Years ago !! It's just white racist Texas pissed off about the school board in Houston HISD being predominantly people of color!!
California wants woke people plenty of room there
Republicans going after schools in the most liberal area of the state in hopes of increasing future odds through highly controlled and limited curriculum for todays youth.
PeopleDied2Vote
Houston public schools-terrible
A what now?
GregAbbott_TX is starting his Dictatorship, surprised it's not state wide! Gimp is so PATHETIC!!!
liberals are going to be very upset there loosing there propaganda factories
More Fascism!
Another fascist gop move
Houston ISD has been corrupt forever
Hope so.
Houston, we may have a protesting
CAFA1968 GOP is somehow deluded that they can force kids to become right-wing by controlling what they learn in school. That may have worked 500 years ago when the world had only 10 books
Self governance is over in Texistan and Floridastan
Should people who said Slavery was good for black people be taking over schools?
So who is in charge at the Texas Ethics Commission?
Oh, isn't it nice, Texas. It's not enough that they left your kids waiting for help locked with an armed madman for an hour, but now they want to take away your kids' future and education opportunities.
Sickening
Wake up Texas
sherylkahn The party of small government and freedom.
Can they do that?
This has never worked, anywhere. Not too mention, it has to be the epitome of big government interference.Great idea, GregAbbott_TX
The party of small government 🙄
sherylkahn This country is in deep, deep shit.
Small government
BellaMax12 They’re going to start teaching kids that Jesus built the Alamo and that Texans DEFINITELY defended it successfully against ten migrant caravans led by Hunter Biden’s laptop who has taken on the form of Satan aren’t they? Yeah, they are.
For those of you who think fascism isn't a threat...
Take over control of the ISD, then change the syllabus to fit their fascist agenda.
The wildest part is when the ones whom consider themselves informed don't truly understand the ramifications of these actions
piper4missouri we’re next 🖕🏻☹️
Oh, big government when it suits conservatives?
That racism and homophobia that fucking governor loves won't teach itself.
they’ll take over school districts but not the state’s failing power grid
PaRtY of SmAlL gOverNMenT.
The party of small government
How come no one just says the truth… their schools suck. Maybe it’s not all racist, or transphobic or about banning books; maybe it’s they currently perform like trash.
Certain ironic that the party of small government wants more government.
Another state 😳
The fascist takeover in the south has begun. Ironic, considering the Republicans historically fought against communism and dictators. I guess fascism has come full ⭕️
Criminal.
🤦🏻♂️
There be fewer books , more of one particular religion , more lies 🤥 - but better for white kids of families that donated to these mini Castro’/Ayatollahs running the Texan authoritarian experiment.
I wonder if the rise of Hitler was due to super shitty press. Cuz, that’s what we have now in the US and there’s just too many similarities.
Wow. The one star state of 'freedums' sure likes government control. Well, just white, male, evangelical republican rule over just about everybody else. 💯
He’s gotta turn those schools into MAGAt factory. 🏭🏭
This is awful
Good
This happens in democratic states too. The city is not competent to run their own schools.
Yikes 😬
Completely unjust
So the Federal Government should take it from The State😳 These gop governors have just lost their damn minds🤷♂️
They’ve been watching them crash and burn. This didn’t happen over night…
100 bucks says first thing they do is 'ban wokeness'.
Fascism in America. Brought to you by Republicans.
Still having guns in schools, no new gun safety laws to protect these children
Republicans: We want smaller government. Also republicans: we are taking over your smaller government.
Sounds like woke is going broke.
A baseless takeover.
Why would the state be in charge of state funded schools?
This happens often in cities run by Democrats. In the end things end up getting fucked up and they have to be saved.
Bit of a Rubicon moment in the culture wars one might be inclined to think.
Gotta make sure it’s not teaching woke stuff like black people were once enslaved
Don't Republicans believe in small government? It's all about power, control and the indoctrination of our children.
Ugh. Goodbye to the books.
Talk about indoctrination GOPHypocrisy
Keep internet away Keep food away Keep good resources away Keep books away…
Good. Enough of letting demoncrat failures slide. Cancel demoncrats.
Fascism
Welp. There go the books.
Great News for the kids and teachers.
Does the indoctrination camp start immediately?
That dude just has I’m evil written all over his face,
Well, Abbott doesn't talk to the local press but he'll be on Fox TV talking about how necessary this step was. Also he is really pushing vouchers as the future. So anything that trashes the public schools is cool with him!
What nxt? Pass a school of choice scam bill to funnel tax $$ to campaign donors & owners of for-profit Charter schools, just a speculation😲😲
OK, now we will wait for the state government to show us how to run these schools effectively. That is sarcasm.
WHAT THE F is happening in America. PEOPLE WAKE UP. No reality TV star will help you.
Nazi Texas
Fascism
America is about to go down hill.. America your kids are going to be badly affected. I will pray for them that some of them make it and do well in grades and see this later how their education was played with by those who say they are adults
They voted him in. Let them live with the consequences. Or they can leave the state. They need to decide what’s best for their children. If they want kids going backwards so be it. You would think he’d have more important issues. However those are to big for him to solve
Small government btw....
I’m interested to know who will be taking the reins of the eighth largest school district in the country. This will be a difficult task even for the most experienced Educator, the key being how do we educate all students for the 21 st Century?
‘Bout that small government, eh? 🤡
🤔
This is what a dictatorship looks like.
History class getting replaced by an hour on the gun range?
Good luck to all of those students.
Small government conservatives who believed in local school control. FFS ppl republicans are full fledged fascists
What could possibly go wrong?! 🤬
I feel sorry for those kids, political pawns for zealots and bigots.
And there goes the education system of Texas, on purpose.
I hope all teachers quit.
Texas proving once again why they have a one star ⭐️ ranking
Texas keeps pushing that racist agenda on our kids .
Odd that NBC didn't mention WHY the state had to take over this district, which was that the schools were failures. For years. But screw the kids, right?
I guess it’s a race to the bottom for fascism. Abbott Desantis Trump
So how are the schools doing academically ? Is there really corrupt boards members etc.? Allegations need to be proven, grades scores are kinda cold hard facts.
The article didn’t really elaborate on what a take over entails. I can only assume it means they call the shots now.
So when the state fails to make the schools better, which it will, who takes over then? Oh wait, the state will never admit it failed. Fortunately, the Democrats will keep an eye on them but then the Republicans will claim it’s political.
So the republicans change the laws to their favor in order to do stuff, previously illegal, in order to get what they want for political reasons? Both side can agree this is government overreach and wouldn’t want the other side to do it to them.
juliabhaber Well there’s one way to reduce the budget — they can stop sending education funds to Texas now
This guy lets kids die in mass shootings. Good luck lol.
Fascism is catching like wildfire in red states.
Some how he will make sure his donors profit off the take over.
That's good, maybe there'll be less kids runnin around all day
They gonna erase dinosaurs from history, and make earth only 4000 years old.
Take their viagra to court.
School unions suck!
As if the State is competent enough to fix it. Lol!!!
. THE ELECTRIC GRID .
Republicans really hate democracy. They don't believe there should be any debate or compromise on any issue. It's not just 'their way or the highway,' it's 'our way or punishment for acting, thinking, voicing different wants.' CallItWhatItIs_FASCISM
Hell doesn't exist if you don't believe in Heaven.
This is so wrong!
Yeah!! Texas, where deregulation and small government rule!! Oh wait...
What happen to small government?
What could go wrong? 🙄
Time to throw away the books, kids.. and just remember the answer to every test question is now 'god did it!' Good luck in the real world!
Excellent, now ban blue haired Marxist pedophiles from teaching
Cause democrats were fucking up the district
Hilarious and people think they have the kids best interest in it all .
Isn't Houston controlled by liberals ? This explains it . They're horrible at running our education system .
They just want to make sure that nobody is teaching a subject that’s not being taught anyway. So just to be clear we will not be teaching anything that not being taught from now on!! Are we clear on that?
Again? Dayum
It’s the best thing to do for the students of Texas.
I have a feeling that the school system is about to be resource stripped in the interest of ‘getting back to basics’ 😏
They really just going to dig in so far, that when they are caved in on. They'll start screaming, but this is just them leading to their undoing.
Texas should probably move back to Mexico now.
I'm sure they are going to do a great job. Small government my ass.
Is the plan to turn them into indoctrination camps?
Texas the new USSR?
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